592 So. 2d 579 - Ex Parte Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2016
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 523 So. 2d 95 - John Deere Co. v. Gamble · 514 So. 2d 845 - Ex Parte Adams · In Re Opinion of the Justices · 568 So. 2d 1226 - Rainer v. Feldman · Spradlin v. Jordan
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he legislature’s use of the disjunctive conjunction ‘or,’ as opposed to the conjunctive conjunction ‘and,’ is not conclusive with respect to the legislature’s intent. It is familiar law in the interpretation of statutes that the intent of the legislature is the polestar by which this Court must be guided and that this Court is at liberty in ascertaining the intent of the legislature to construe the disjunctive conjunction ‘or’ and the conjunctive conjunction ‘and’ interchangeably. In re Opinion of the Justices No. 98, 252 Ala. 194 , 41 So.2d 559 (1949).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.